In the past, searches involving for “stop words” — prepositions, pronouns, articles, and other small words like “be” or “to” — would return a warning saying that these words were “a very common word and were not included in your search.” Now, searches involving stop words no longer do this.

Here is a before and after picture showing this. The before picture was taken from here:

Does this mean that Google no longer ignores stop words such as “a, and, is, on, of, or, the, was, with”? Or does it mean that Google simply no longer tells the searcher that Google is ignoring those stop words?

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